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Eleven quarry overloaders fined
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• After residents living in the Bolton Woods area of Bradford complained that tipper lorries operating out of a nearby quarry were repeatedly spilling rock-fill on the highways, a DoE traffic examiner carried out a full investigation which resulted in 11 men, mainly owneroperators, appearing before Bradford City magistrates' court last week in connection with a total of 104 charges of overloading.
The court heard that all those involved in the offences, said to have occurred in May and June last year and which came to light after the examiner had inspected a number of back-dated weigh-tickets, had been engaged in work for Percy Pickards, a quarrying firm, of Wood Lane, Bolton Woods.
Many of those charged told the magistrates that working conditions at the quarry were far from satisfactory and in most cases there had been no direct plan to achieve financial gain through overloading. Of those charged all pleaded guilty, with the exception of Mr Percy Wilkinson, of Bradford, who denied three charges of overloading on the grounds that he had transferred the business to his son, Mr Derek Wilkinson, more than a year before the offences were said to have been committed.
Mr M. Patterson, prosecuting for. the DoE out that although Mr Wilkinson claimed that he no longer had any connection with the business and had been receiving social benefit for the past two years, the 0 licence was, in fact, still held by him and the business still operated under the name of P. Wilkinson and Son.
After finding the case proved, the magistrates fined Mr Wilkinson a total of £9 and his son, as driver of the vehicle, a total of k6.
Also fined for overloading were: Laikat Ali, six offences, £14 fines in total; Stuart Johnson, 12 offences, £24; Ikram Khan, nine offences, £18; Carl Lloyd, 13 offences, £26; Lansford McGreath, 20 offences, £40; David Noble, 18 offences, £36; Alvur Pinnock, two offences, £6; Keith Pullan, four offences, £8; Reuben Simpson, 14 offences, £28.